meibomian glands

set of exocrine glands, along the rims of the eyelid
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meibomian glands
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meibomian glands

Summary

meibomian glands ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (222 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • meibomian glands's image is recorded as Gray1205.png[2].
  • Heinrich Meibom is named after meibomian glands[3].
  • meibomian glands's subclass of is recorded as set of glands[4].
  • meibomian glands's subclass of is recorded as sebaceous gland[5].
  • meibomian glands's has use is recorded as tear film[6].
  • meibomian glands's Commons category is recorded as Meibomian gland[7].
  • meibomian glands's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D008537[8].
  • meibomian glands's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06rvwn[9].
  • meibomian glands's MeSH tree code is recorded as A09.371.337.614[10].
  • meibomian glands's MeSH tree code is recorded as A10.336.827.600[11].
  • meibomian glands's Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID is recorded as A15.2.07.042[12].
  • meibomian glands's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[13].
  • meibomian glands's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[14].
  • meibomian glands's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • meibomian glands's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • meibomian glands's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 71872[17].
  • meibomian glands's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 59104[18].
  • meibomian glands's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/meibomian-gland[19].
  • meibomian glands's UBERON ID is recorded as 0001818[20].
  • meibomian glands's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0025181[21].
  • meibomian glands's TA98 Latin term is recorded as glandulae tarsales[22].
  • meibomian glands's SNOMED CT ID is recorded as 1110006[23].
  • meibomian glands's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777165675[24].
  • meibomian glands's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2911040389[25].
  • meibomian glands's TA2 ID is recorded as 6833[26].

Why It Matters

meibomian glands ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (222 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . unifr.ch. unifr.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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